{"id":10428,"date":"2020-02-13T19:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/13\/pentagon-and-microsoft-must-halt-work-on-jedi-cloud-for-now\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:30:12","slug":"pentagon-and-microsoft-must-halt-work-on-jedi-cloud-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2020\/02\/13\/pentagon-and-microsoft-must-halt-work-on-jedi-cloud-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon and Microsoft must halt work on JEDI cloud … for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon and Microsoft must temporarily suspend work on the Department of Defense\u2019s controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract while a court hears Amazon\u2019s challenge to the award decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentagon officials planned to start work on the contract Feb. 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Feb. 13 injunction, which is under seal in the Court of Federal Claims, comes just days after Amazon moved to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis<\/a> and several other DoD officials involved in the acquisition of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, a deal that could be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a response to Amazon\u2019s motion for an injunction, DoD lawyers argued that any delay to the contract would be a national security risk, citing several specific DoD components that would suffer without the technology, such as the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. DoD officials have regularly pointed to that organization as needing the JEDI cloud capability throughout the acquisition process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe diverse array of disconnected cloud environments in which DoD currently operates is a major driver of the need for a consolidated enterprise cloud under the JEDI contract,\u201d DoD lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Col. Robert Carver, a Pentagon spokesman, said Feb. 13 that \u201cthe actions taken in this litigation have unnecessarily delayed implementing DoD\u2019s modernization strategy and deprived our warfighters of a set of capabilities they urgently need. However, we are confident in our award of the JEDI Cloud contract to Microsoft and remain focused on getting this critical capability into the hands of our warfighters as quickly and efficiently as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t